The eagle-eyed trend mongers of the New York Times Thursday Style section love them a scandal, so it's no surprise it takes just two sentences to get to the conspiracy behind a new haircut they've been spotting around town on various men: "A lot of them just ask for a Hitler Youth," says one barber quoted. Rightfully, he goes on to admit he was trying to avoid saying that.

You might be wondering what, exactly, that means. Apparently, it involves cutting your hair really short on the sides, and slicking back the top like Jimmy Darmody, played by Michael Pitt on Boardwalk Empire. In Sweden, they call it an "undercut" — which sounds a helluva lot better than "Hitler youth." And we have to give the Times a bit of credit here, we've been seeing this haircut crop up with intensity in recent years. But therein lays our issue: The article gleefully points out that "variations have been spotted on Win Butler of the band Arcade Fire; Hedi Slimane, the French fashion designer-turned-photographer; and Cole Mohr, a model." David Lynch, too, and if three's a trend, then four is too. Problem is, if the writer called up any of these stylish men, they would report that their hairstyle is nothing new to them. Next grooming obsession? Probably not. Historically accurate? No comment.